CPU Server Physical Design Engineer
$124,300 - $186,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 29 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Qualcomm is seeking a CPU Server Physical Design Engineer to assist in Central Processing Unit (CPU) design efforts, collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement multi-core CPU operations.
What you'll do
- Apply knowledge of computer architecture, micro-architecture, logic design, circuits, and physical design to assist in the development and verification of high performance and low power CPU designs.
- Identify and solve routine problems to ensure design completeness, functionality, power, and performance.
- Collaborate with team members to assist in defining requirements, specifications, and trade-offs such as performance, power, and cost.
- Assist in evaluating the design process from conceptualization to productization, covering architecture definition, feasibility, pre-silicon design, verification, and post-silicon validation.
- Write technical documentation including feature descriptions, architectural descriptions, verification test plans, and implementation details for CPU designs.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 1 year of work experience with high level programming (such as C, C++) or scripting language programming (such as Perl, Python).
- 1 year of work experience with industry standard tools for synthesis, place and/or route, and design verification.
- 1 year of work experience with simulation, emulation, formal verification, or silicon validation.
- 1 year of experience in creating functional models, checkers, test plans, and/or test generation.
Skills: synthesis, place and route, CPU design, timing, physical design
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 59-day median for Physical Design roles.
Physical Design · Physical Design
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Open roles in category
693
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Median days open
59 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$185k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (693 roles · 81 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 109 | 693 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 151 | 1545 · 112 employers |
| Median days open | 52 d | 59 d (−7 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: synthesis, place and route, CPU design, timing, physical design
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 114 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 63 open roles · median 33 d
- Synopsys · 39 open roles · median 43 d
- Intel Corporation · 38 open roles · median 21 d
- Broadcom · 37 open roles · median 99 d
- NVIDIA · 36 open roles · median 69 d
How we counted: 693 open Physical Design (Physical Design) roles from 81 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 29 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Physical Implementation family row. Figures refresh nightly.